Detecting uptake changes with lesion size uncertainty: Comparison of SUV methods and reconstruction

I Armstrong, M Kelly, H Williams, J Matthews - 2013 - Soc Nuclear Med
336 Objectives We have previously shown that, when object size is known and fixed,
SUVpeak gives higher confidence than SUVmax in detecting changes of uptake. For a more …

A threshold method to improve standardized uptake value reproducibility

JR Lee, MT Madsen, D Bushnel… - Nuclear medicine …, 2000 - journals.lww.com
Although standardized uptake values (SUV) are widely used to quantify the uptake of 18 F-
fluorodeoxyglucose (18 F-FDG) in tumours, there are systematic differences in the way this …

Noise and bias characteristics of standardized uptake value (SUV) derived with point spread function (PSF) image reconstruction: should PSF be used for PET tumor …

M Lodge, R Boellaard - 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
614 Objectives: PET image reconstruction with PSF modelling improves spatial resolution
and may lead to better performance for clinical visual assessment tasks. Unfortunately SUV …

Influence of statistical fluctuation on reproducibility and accuracy of SUVmax and SUVpeak: a phantom study

G Akamatsu, Y Ikari, H Nishida, T Nishio… - Journal of nuclear …, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
Standardized uptake values (SUVs) have been widely used in the diagnosis of malignant
tumors and in clinical trials of tumor therapies as semiquantitative metrics of tumor 18F-FDG …

Reproducibility of SUVmax in serial PET studies

J Schwartz, SA Nehmeh, NY Lee, H Schoder… - 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
464 Objectives SUVs quantitatively measure tumor uptake and may be used to monitor
tumor response. Here we assess reproducibility and uncertainty of SUV max and establish …

[HTML][HTML] Variation and repeatability of measured standardized uptake values depending on actual values: a phantom study

T Kaneta, N Sun, M Ogawa, H Iizuka… - American Journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Standardized uptake values (SUVs) are the most widely used quantitative imaging
biomarkers in positron emission tomography (PET); however, little is known about the …

Effect of image noise in reproducibility and accuracy of standardized uptake values: A phantom study

G Akamatsu, H Nishida, Y Ikari, T Nishio, A Ohnishi… - 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
2628 Objectives The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility and accuracy
of standardized uptake values (SUV) in relation to the acquisition times, image noise and …

Variations in SUV values with reconstruction algorithms

B Bai, M Kulon, P Esser - 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
2100 Objectives We compared the mean and maximum standard uptake values (SUVs)
measured from PET images reconstructed with FBP, and OSEM, with and without point …

Is partial volume correction useful for detecting tumor uptake changes in patient monitoring?

J Maisonobe, S Stute, H Necib, I Buvat - 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
27 Objectives PET is useful to assess the tumor response to therapy. Percent changes in
tumor Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) are often compared to an empirical cut-off value to …

Effects of noise, image resolution, and ROI definition on the accuracy of standard uptake values: a simulation study

R Boellaard, NC Krak, OS Hoekstra… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2004 - Soc Nuclear Med
Semiquantitative standard uptake values (SUVs) are used for tumor diagnosis and response
monitoring. However, the accuracy of the SUV and the accuracy of relative change during …